Bold means I finished it.Italic means I started it but didn't finish it.Underline means I love it.Strikethru means I hate it.

Recommendations, disrecommendations, agreements, disagreements, complaints about the choices on the list, etc., welcome.

A - B 1. The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow 2. All the King's Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren 3. American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth 4. An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser 5. Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell 6. Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O'Hara 7. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970), by Judy Blume 8. The Assistant (1957), by Bernard Malamud 9. At Swim-Two-Birds (1938), by Flann O'Brien 10. Atonement (2002), by Ian McEwan 11. Beloved (1987), by Toni Morrison 12. The Berlin Stories (1946), by Christopher Isherwood13. The Big Sleep (1939), by Raymond Chandler 14. The Blind Assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood 15. Blood Meridian (1986), by Cormac McCarthy 16. Brideshead Revisited (1946), by Evelyn Waugh 17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), by Thornton WilderC - D 1. Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth 2. Catch-22 (1961), by Joseph Heller 3. The Catcher in the Rye (1951), by J.D. Salinger 4. A Clockwork Orange (1963), by Anthony Burgess 5. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), by William Styron 6. The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen 7. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), by Thomas Pynchon 8. A Dance to the Music of Time (1951), by Anthony Powell 9. The Day of the Locust (1939), by Nathanael West 10. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather 11. A Death in the Family (1958), by James Agee 12. The Death of the Heart (1958), by Elizabeth Bowen 13. Deliverance (1970), by James Dickey 14. Dog Soldiers (1974), by Robert StoneF - G 1. Falconer (1977), by John Cheever 2. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), by John Fowles (I seem to recall that I thought it was a good yarn, but one of the 100 best?) 3. The Golden Notebook (1962), by Doris Lessing 4. Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), by James Baldwin 5. Gone With the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell 6. The Grapes of Wrath (1939), by John Steinbeck 7. Gravity's Rainbow (1973), by Thomas Pynchon 8. The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott FitzgeraldH - I 1. A Handful of Dust (1934), by Evelyn Waugh 2. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), by Carson McCullers 3. The Heart of the Matter (1948), by Graham Greene 4. Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow 5. Housekeeping (1981), by Marilynne Robinson 6. A House for Mr. Biswas (1962), by V.S. Naipaul 7. I, Claudius (1934), by Robert Graves 8. Infinite Jest (1996), by David Foster Wallace 9. Invisible Man (1952), by Ralph EllisonL - N 1. Light in August (1932), by William Faulkner 2. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), by C.S. Lewis 3. Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov (Yes, even though I haven't read it) 4. Lord of the Flies (1955), by William Golding5. The Lord of the Rings (1954), by J.R.R. Tolkien 6. Loving (1945), by Henry Green 7. Lucky Jim (1954), by Kingsley Amis 8. The Man Who Loved Children (1940), by Christina Stead 9. Midnight's Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie 10. Money (1984), by Martin Amis 11. The Moviegoer (1961), by Walker Percy 12. Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf 13. Naked Lunch (1959), by William Burroughs 14. Native Son (1940), by Richard Wright 15. Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson (I am never quite sure why people think this is a great novel.)16. Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro 17. 1984 (1948), by George OrwellO - R 1. On the Road (1957), by Jack Kerouac 2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), by Ken Kesey ("Loved it" isn't quite correct, but it made a big impression on me.) 3. The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski 4. Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov5. A Passage to India (1924), by E.M. Forster 6. Play It As It Lays (1970), by Joan Didion 7. Portnoy's Complaint (1969), by Philip Roth (I liked it at the time I read it, so it's a retrospective strike-out.) 8. Possession (1990), by A.S. Byatt 9. The Power and the Glory (1939), by Graham Greene 10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), by Muriel Spark 11. Rabbit, Run (1960), by John Updike 12. Ragtime (1975), by E.L. Doctorow 13. The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis 14. Red Harvest (1929), by Dashiell Hammett 15. Revolutionary Road (1961), by Richard YatesS - T 1. The Sheltering Sky (1949), by Paul Bowles 2. Slaughterhouse Five (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut (I loved it when I first read it, but the sexism ruined it for me on re-reading.)3. Snow Crash (1992), by Neal Stephenson 4. The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), by John Barth 5. The Sound and the Fury (1929), by William Faulkner 6. The Sportswriter (1986), by Richard Ford 7. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964), by John le Carre 8. The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway 9. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston 10. Things Fall Apart (1959), by Chinua Achebe 11. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee12. To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf 13. Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry MillerU - W1. Ubik (1969), by Philip K. Dick (I just finished this.) 2. Under the Net (1954), by Iris Murdoch 3. Under the Volcano (1947), by Malcolm Lowry 4. Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 5. White Noise (1985), by Don DeLillo 6. White Teeth (2000), by Zadie Smith 7. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys